Big lie
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A big lie is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, primarily used as a political propaganda technique. The German expression was first used by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf to de
Adolf Hitler, c. 1923, two years before he coined the expression
Hitler claimed that Jews had spread the "big lie" that General Erich Ludendorff (pictured) was responsible for the country's loss in World War I.
Joseph Goebbels, the head of Nazi Germany's Ministry of Propaganda
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Accusation in a mirror
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Accusation in a mirror is a technique often used to incite hate speech, where someone falsely attributes their own motives or intentions onto their adversaries. Along with dehumanization, accusation i
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…sentiment against Jews and justify the Holocaust. Herf maintains that Nazi Germany's chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie technique that they described – and that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder. Herf further argues that the Nazis' big lie was their depiction…
The Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum in Turkey